Foreign involvement in the Syrian Civil War

A ceasefire has been agreed for southern Syria between the government and rebels, a Jordanian official source said on June 29, amid fears of a gathering humanitarian catastrophe in a region sensitive to neighbours Jordan and Israel.

The U.N. envoy for Syria says he will host senior officials from Turkey, Iran, and Russia in Geneva next week to discuss efforts to create a constitutional committee that could help one day bring peace to the war-devastated country.

Two top diplomats from Turkey and the United States will come together in Washington D.C. on June 3 to finalize a months-long debated road map for a bilateral move in the Manbij province of Syria that will push the withdrawal of Syrian Kurdish fighters from the city and help the two NATO allies relatively mend their troubled ties.

According to him, Russia last month deterred a larger-scale Western attack on Syria. The president believes that Damascus is close to winning the seven-year war, despite continued "US interference."

The danger of an escalation in Syria is rising - especially since the United States left the nuclear deal with Iran. However, the real danger in the region is not the war but the illusion that it can really be stopped warns Deutsche Welle.

Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman on May 11 urged Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to expel Iranian forces from his country, after Israeli air strikes hit alleged Iranian targets in Syria.

In an exclusive interview with Kathimerini's executive editor Alexis Papachelas, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad denied that the Syrian Army used chemical weapons against civilians, while taking aim at both Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and US President Donald Trump. Read the full interview here.

Israel said it attacked nearly all of Iran's military infrastructure in Syria on May 10 after Iranian forces fired rockets at Israeli-held territory for the first time.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has hit out against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in an exclusive interview with Kathimerini, accusing him of being "affiliated" with the Muslim Brotherhood Islamist organization and calling Turkish troops who occupied the Syrian enclave of Afrin "terrorists." 

BEIRUT/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Wednesday an Israeli attack on Iranian military facilities south of Damascus had killed at least 15 people, including eight Iranians.

The reports of an Israeli attack in Kisweh late on Tuesday emerged after U.S. President Donald Trump announced he was pulling out of the Iranian nuclear deal.